Jesus and Mary Chain Mania!

ah but is it "Vegetable Fucking Maaaaaaan" or just the more restrained version thesedays?

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Total "Vegetable Man"!

and I totally called Miranda Lee Richards to my friends even though I was up in the rafters. I totally chatted her up in Amoeba once but was too chicken to ask for digits.

I got to take 4 friends for free* because of your link, thanks Spencer! What an awesome show it was! After surprising me with "Vegetable Man", I was hoping they'd do "Surfin USA"!

The box set again (turns out to be quite pricey):

The Jesus & Mary Chain - 'The Power of Negative...

New Price - £39.99 - (old 'pre-orders' will be charged at the new, lower price) 'The Power Of Negative Thinking' (B-Sides & Rarities) is the new name for the J and MC's rarities collections. Things have changed a bit since the last report - it's now set to be a 4 CD box set and now due on March 17th. for £39.99

This is from Spin CDs.

Wow, hadn't heard about that at all! Tracklist? I hope it includes "Don't You Want Somebody to Love".

I think Amazon had it for less than that.

When I saw this thread had been bumped I was hoping the tracklist had leaked :(

Asda online has it as £33.97 free delivery.

US release date?

http://www.myspace.com/jesusandmarychainband got 3 new tracks

Nice, I'll want that set...

I like the 3 new tracks!

Still nothing on rhino.com about that box set... is it stil on?

Still on apparently, but only three weeks from the release date it's astonishing that no track listing can be found.

17 March is about one month from now. Still nothing on the Rhino site, still no tracklists anywhere. Not happening or delayed?

Oh, and Spin CDs upped their expected price to £49.99

Customers who bought The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities (4CD) also bought

Various - Can You Jack? Chicago Acid And Experimental House 1985-95 (2CD)
John Cooper Clarke - Ou Est La Maison Du Fromage?
S'Express - Ultimate
John Cooper Clarke - Zip Style Method (Expanded Edition)

HMV Japan (I know..) has it :

Availability: Out Soon - current release date is 29 Sep 2008

I don't get the Amazon.com entry at all - did they have it in stock last year but not anymore?

no.

Oddly enough, I have bought three of four of those CDs, and from Amazon no less, but hadn't heard of this. EERIE.

just wait until there's a solid confirmation before you place an Amazon preorder, dummies.

*sigh*

didn't the two roundhouse dates get squashed into one last month? ticket sales?

Tonight. Palace. Melbourne.

fuck yeah.

SOMEONE POST THE TRACKLISTING FOR THE BOX SET HERE!

roundhouse: yep, but on the plus side the one date was pretty well attended. and they were a lot better than on previous sightings (rollercoaster and munki tours)

They encored with Darklands followed by Reverence.

Genius.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51551-jesus-and-mary-chain-rarities-collected-on-box-set

it took a little longer than expected, but the four-CD, 81-track box set is all ready to go for a September 30 release:

The Power of Negative Thinking:

Disc one:

01 Up Too High (previously unreleased)
02 Upside Down
03 Vegetable Man
04 Suck
05 Ambition
06 Just out of Reach
07 Boyfriend's Dead
08 Head
09 Just Like Honey (demo Oct. '84)
10 Cracked
11 Taste of Cindy (acoustic version)
12 The Hardest Walk
13 Never Understand (alternate, previously unreleased)
14 My Little Underground (demo, previously unreleased)
15 The Living End (demo, previously unreleased)
16 Some Candy Talking
17 Psychocandy
18 Hit
19 Cut Dead (acoustic)
20 You Trip Me Up (acoustic)
21 Walk and Crawl (previously unreleased)

Disc two:

01 Kill Surf City
02 Bo Diddley Is Jesus
03 Who Do You Love
04 Everything's Alright When You're Down
05 Shake
06 Happy When It Rains (demo)
07 Happy Place
08 F.Hole
09 Rider
10 On the Wall (Porta Studio demo)
11 Surfin' USA (April outtake)
12 Here It Comes Again
13 Don't Ever Change
14 Swing
15 Sidewalking
16 Surfin' USA (summer mix)
17 Shimmer
18 Penetration
19 Break Me Down
20 Subway
21 My Girl

Disc three:

01 In the Black
02 Terminal Beach
03 Deviant Slice
04 I'm Glad I Never
05 Drop (acoustic remix)
06 Rollercoaster
07 Silverblade
08 Lowlife
09 Tower of Song
10 Heat
11 Guitarman
12 Why'd You Want Me
13 Sometimes
14 Teenage Lust (acoustic version)
15 Reverberation (Doubt)
16 Don't Come Down
17 Snakedriver
18 Something I Can't Have
19 Write Record Release Blues
20 Little Red Rooster

Disc four:

01 The Perfect Crime
02 Little Stars
03 Drop (re-recorded)
04 I'm in With the Out Crowd
05 New York City
06 Taking It Away
07 Ghost of a Smile
08 Alphabet Street
09 Coast to Coast (alternate take, William Reid vocals, previously unreleased)
10 Dirty Water (demo, William Reid vocals, previously unreleased)
11 Till I Found You (previously unreleased)
12 Bleed Me
13 33 1/3
14 Lost Star
15 Hide Myself
16 Rocket
17 Easylife, Easylove
18 40,000K
19 Nineteen666

been listening to them a lot recently...fantastic stuff, obv.

veg man on disc, sweet

I assume "Up too high" is "Send me away" from the early demos cassette.

Oh, but what about "Upside Down" from the original 12"? (sort of demo version)

Yeah I was looking for that one - the Upside Down demo, that is. At least this is actually coming out, I was thinking it'd been scrapped.

A fantastic collection. A case could be made for the Mary Chain's castoffs one-upping much of their album material, especially during their later years. So this pretty much mega-compiles tbe tracks already compiled on Barbed Wire Kisses, The Sound of Speed, and I Hate Rock n Roll, right?

Oh yeah, just thought: "Jesus Suck" still remains unreleased.

Yeah I'm slightly disappointed with this, seeing as I already own Barbed Wire Kisses, Sound Of Speed & I Hate Rock'n'Roll, there's not really much point in me buying it. It's good that some of the early B-sides have finally been reissued (Vegetable Man, Ambition etc) but I have those on vinyl anyway.

I have most of these in one form or another but I'll maybe buy this anyway just to have them all together.

They should have included that song at the end of the "legendary" Ambulance Station gig where Jim's just shouting "Fuck You Fuck You" over noise.

I have most of these in one form or another but I'll maybe buy this anyway just to have them all together.

me too ^^

who cares? all great songs.

xpost what the "You're all a bunch of fucking pish" song?

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/7486045.jpg

A generous friend has just given me his advance of this beautiful package. I love everything about it except perhaps the typeface for the band name which is a bit Vespertine-ish.

Haven't gone through it all yet except to say that the tracks that I have previously on CD sound much better here and much more like the vinyl (although maybe the vocals are a little too clear).

Right away the first track, the achingly lovely "Up Too High (demo '83)" is a revelation. I had always assumed that the "On The Wall (porta studio demo)" was made just before Darklands was recorded but I'm now of the opinion that it too was recorded with "Up Too High" in the very early days. The delicate arrangement is very much at odds with the brutally shambolic bootlegs I have from the same period and really both spotlights their seemingly innate melodic gifts and also amplifies the perversity of drowning such lovely songs in feedback.

There are so many things I'm excited about finally having on CD like "Vegetable Man", "Ambition", "Happy When It Rains (demo)" etc.

The included poster/family tree is lovely and I'm definitely going to frame the singles covers to remind me of how much this band defined rock and roll for me.

Only thing I still really want to hear is that early cover of "Somebody to Love".

I'd also like a CD quality version of the "Some Candy Talking" version from the NME 7".

I saw this thread title and for a split second thought it was an ITV1 Saturday night show where Zoe Ball pays tribute to the East Kilbride reprobates with a star-studded cast including Tony Hadley ("Never Understand"), Jamelia ("Sidewalking") and Vernon Out Of Corrie ("Reverence").

If girls aloud are doing "Happy when it rains" wearing macs and umbrellas....

"Step back, an watch the sweet thing.."

We might get Gabriela Climi tackling "Upside Down": "Owowowoo tha shaaaaan cammmes up anaddah diyyy bege-heee-aaaans &c."

but oh noe, here comes him out of G4 to over-sing "Hiiiigh want to trip youuu uuuhpppp"...

Is The Hardest Walk the version off that soundtrack?

ooh, i love the on the wall demo, i've never heard them do anything else like it. i always meant to buy the happy when it rains 10" to see what the demo of that was like.

i agree about the typeface, it's a little twenty-first century makeover.